[AGL] Why 'merkans vote for the GOP

[Frances Morey]

Okay, I'm guessing that Chinese is the most widely spoken native language. Is it measured by the size of the population that speaks it? English is mightly widespread because of our exported entertainment production--one German told me that his mastery of English came from listening to rock 'n' roll.
   
  G'morning, Wayne,
  Austin has seen two stormy days, trees blown over, limbs down all over town, and it is lightening again this morning. My little garden plants survived and all the rain relieves me of having to water. 
  Hope you are good. Keep on working to counter the ignorance penumbra through teaching.
  Best,
  Frances
  

Wayne Johnson <cadaobh at shentel.net> wrote:
          Dumb people do dumb things.
   
  Add Geography to the growing list of major intellectual non-events in the life of Young Americans.  [Critical thinking?  I didn't know criticals could think?  Aren't criticals just black grasshoppers?]
   
  How can there be truly "free" elections when the voters don't know their ass from a hot rock.  Geography?  D'oh!  History? D'oh!  Politics? D'oh, D'oh!  [Hey, he sounds like my old man, I will vote for him.  Oh, wasn't she on ER? I will vote for her.]
   
  I mean like the really Important Things are like in the Mall, dude.  Chill out.
   
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Thirty-three percent of respondents couldn't pinpoint Louisiana on a map. [I wonder how many people in LA can find their own state on the map.  Or for that matter Texas.]

    
Fewer than three in 10 think it important to know the locations of countries in the news and just 14 percent believe speaking another language is a necessary skill.  [No wonder some people thought the Sandanistas were going to invade El Paso.]
  
Two-thirds didn't know that the earthquake that killed 70,000 people in October 2005 occurred in Pakistan. 
  
Six in 10 could not find Iraq on a map of the Middle East.  [My brother just got killed somewhere, dude.  Hey, is that an Xbox?]
  
Forty-seven percent could not find the Indian subcontinent on a map of Asia. [Bombay isn't if Florida?]
  
Seventy-five percent were unable to locate Israel on a map of the Middle East. [Drive due East from Gibraltar.  Oh, where is Gibraltar?]
  
Nearly three-quarters incorrectly named English as the most widely spoken native language. [Spanglish?]
  
Six in 10 did not know the border between North and South Korea is the most heavily fortified in the world. [Korea?  Isn't that in South America somewhere?  Oh, cool shoes, bro'!]
  
Thirty percent thought the most heavily fortified border was between the United States and Mexico. [Well, this will likely happen soon if the Minutemen and other patriotic racists get their way.]
  

Source: The Associated 

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